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Sewell Street

60 reports at 15 addresses in Linwood, the first in 2021, the latest 2026. 57 separate days somebody filed something about it.

60 reports15 addresses57 days reported onfrom the air, then50 documents carry the namethe 1160th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Sewell Street, 21 reports3 Sewell Street, 9 reports22 Sewell Street, 7 reports33 Sewell Street, 6 reports9 Sewell Street, 3 reports27 Sewell Street, 3 reports18 Sewell Street, 3 reports7 Sewell Street, 1 report29 Sewell Street, 1 report25 Sewell Street, 1 report20B Sewell Street, 1 report2 Sewell Street, 1 report18A Sewell Street, 1 report11 Sewell Street, 1 report10 Sewell Street, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Sewell Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Linwood.

From the air, then

Sewell Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Sewell Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Sewell Street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

The addresses on it

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 50 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Sewell Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.

As it was reported

Water Pollution - Sediment, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPothole, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photo more photographs
on the Linwood wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Sewell Street?

In Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Sewell Street?

60 reports at 15 addresses, most often water & drains (33), rubbish & dumping (6), roads & footpaths (6).

When was Sewell Street first reported on?

2021, the record covers 57 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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